Wednesday Vignette: Magic

“The world is full of magic things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” — WB Yeats

Sudden Snow

What a difference a day makes, 24 little hours. Also: years. Yesterday, spouse & I hit the local nurseries and bought two weeping trees to replace two

Garden Blogger’s Bloomday — April 2017

Still nothing in bloom here but at least the snow is melting. (Though we often get another snowfall later in April.) Right now, it’s melted

Garden Blogger’s Bloomday — March 2017

Well, no blooms here yet. In fact, yesterday, just when we were seeing snow melt and some bare ground, another 14-18″ of snow fell (measurements varied

The Niveous, Avian Garden

“He made two or three peculiar observations; as when shewn the botanical garden, ‘Is not EVERY garden a botanical garden?” ― James Boswell, The Life

Winter Itself is Soluble in Water

“Despite March’s windy reputation, winter isn’t really blown away; it is washed away. It flows down all the hills, goes swirling down the valleys and